“People with heart, people with passion, people with people”
Participants in the Edmund Rice Network of Aotearoa-New Zealand strive to live the following values in everyday life and engagement:
Hospitable Communities:
- Being welcoming, open and responsive.
- Fostering a sense of belonging and acceptance
- Appreciating diversity by being inclusive
- Working together, moving forward, and growing in love
- Dealing with problems when they arise
Compassionate Heart:
- Being a quality of presence that leaves people feeling valued
- Being available for others
- Standing alongside and journeying with others in solidarity
- Demonstrating a great capacity to love and a willingness to forgive hurts
- Working to liberate others from oppression and injustice
Reflection:
- Getting together, sharing everyday experiences, and making meaning.
- Learning from others
- Keeping the Edmund Rice story and the justice-seeking tradition alive
- Standing back to embrace and celebrate heart changing moments
- Engaging in reflective processes that foster hope
Right Relationship:
- Courageous risk-taking to restore right order
- Cultivating energy and generosity for good
- Keeping an eye on the task and the bigger picture in sight
- Inventing new ways to meet current challenges
Committed Involvement/Service for Justice:
- Strengthening connections to open up pathways for others
- Building a more just and civil society
- Finding freedom in reaching out to people
- Enjoying simplicity and having fun
- Working together we can achieve more